Lincoln Clark

Lincoln Clark ( born August 9, 1800, Conway, Franklin County, Massachusetts, † September 16, 1886 ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lincoln Clark attended both public and private schools of his home and then to 1825 Amherst College in Massachusetts. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1831 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Pickensville (Alabama ). In Alabama, his political career began as a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1834, 1835 and 1845 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Alabama. Since 1836 he lived in Tuscaloosa. In 1839, Clark was appointed Attorney General of his new home state. In 1846 he was also in Alabama District Judge.

1848 Clark moved to Dubuque in Iowa. In the congressional elections of 1850 he was against John Parsons Cook, the candidate of the Whig Party, in the second electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1851 is the successor of Shepherd Leffler. Since he lost to Cook in the elections of 1852, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1853.

In 1854, Clark applied unsuccessfully for a return to Congress. In 1857 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Iowa. In the presidential election of 1860 he supported Stephen A. Douglas. He later moved to Chicago, where he practiced as a lawyer. In 1866 he was an employee for federal bankruptcy proceedings (Register in Bankruptcy ). In 1869, Lincoln Clark withdrew into retirement. He returned to his birthplace Conway in Massachusetts, where he died in September 1886.